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He said that
he was waiting for the quaestors to appear in the senate; just as if a praetor could
not give in his accounts without the quaestor, in the same way as the quaestor does
without the praetor, (as you did, Hortensius, and as all have done.) He said that
Dolabella obtained the same permission. The omen pleased the conscript fathers
rather than the excuse; they admitted it. But now the quaestors have arrived some
time. Why have you not rendered them now? Among the accounts of that infamous
lieutenancy and pro-quaestorship of yours, those items occur which are necessarily
set down also in the accounts of Dolabella. (An extract is read of the account of
the damages assessed against Dolabella, praetor of the Roman people, for money
received.) 1

1 Hottomann makes sure that there is some corruption
of the MS. here, and Graevius agrees with him. “The whole passage is
very obscure and the more difficult because we are not acquainted with the forms
of proceeding which were followed against magistrates convicted of extortion. It
is not clear, as far as appears from Cicero's speech, that, though there was a
discrepancy between the accounts of Verres and that of Dolabella, the fault was
necessarily in the accounts of Verres; especially as Dolabella had been justly
convicted of extortion and malversation already. Undoubtedly Cicero produced
witnesses who assisted to put the case in the point of view in which he wished it
to be looked at.”—Desmenorius.

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